The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now owns the printers manuscript of the Book of Mormon  for $35 million, the sellers say.

The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, announced the sale, and the price tag, on Wednesday. The Independence, Missouri-based church has owned the manuscript since 1903.

Steven E. Snow, LDS Church historian and recorder, confirmed the acquisition, calling the document both a spiritual and historic treasure. Church officials did not immediately confirm, but also did not challenge, the stated sales price when contacted Thursday.

It sure has some weird ideas that don’t match up to any Bible passages. It is a cult. They dare to call themselves Christian, yet deny the deity of Christ, among many other blasphemous ideas. Now if we could just get all that fun family night stuff into Christianity...

Well KC we may not be the Garden of Eden but we're also not the "Garden of Evil (Hollywierd)," we're not Las Wages, we're not Chicago, the world's murder capitol just after Rio, we're not in danger of suffering hurricanes nor earthquakes nor do we worship government like the brown-out cities on the NE coast.

Actually old Joe Smith claimed Eden to be in Independence, MO not KC.

Kansas City, MO is known as "the City of Fountains," for the simple reason that we have more than Rome! Try gazing at this and maybe you'll see why we love our City: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fountains_in_the_Kansas_City_metropolitan_area#/media/File%3AJC_Nichols_Fountain_by_Henri-Léon_Gréber_Kansas_City.jpg

Well KC we may not be the Garden of Eden but we're also not the "Garden of Evil (Hollywierd)," we're not Las Wages, we're not Chicago, the world's murder capitol just after Rio, we're not in danger of suffering hurricanes nor earthquakes nor do we worship government like the brown-out cities on the NE coast.

Actually old Joe Smith claimed Eden to be in Independence, MO not KC.

Kansas City, MO is known as "the City of Fountains," for the simple reason that we have more than Rome! Try gazing at this and maybe you'll see why we love our City:

Joseph Smith was not illiterate. He used his “seer stones” to translate the golden plates into English, by one account. His first Book of Mormon was published in 1830 & said to be the history of a Hebraic kingdom in North America. Pure poppycock of course, but JS was already well known as a storyteller.

Mohammed OTOH was illiterate. And a pedophile. And a mass murderer. Etc. Both “prophets” took multiple wives.

“Alcoran” was JS’s rendering of El Koran.

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posted on 09/21/2017 2:47:36 PM PDT
by elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")

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